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This authorized the president to negotiate with Native American tribes for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for white settlement of their lands.
People involved- President Martin Van Buren, General Winfield Scott -
Their goal was to open up opportunities for women, with a focus on suffrage. The main goal was securing the right for women to vote.
People involved- Sojourner Truth, Jane Addams -
These laws were state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States. Allowed racial segregation in all public facilities -
This was the flagship Indian boarding school in the United States from 1879 through 1918.
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A federal law was signed by President Chester A. Arthur that prohibited all immigration of Chinese laborers.
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This act regulated land rights on tribal territories within the United States. This allowed the government to break up tribal lands.
People involved- President Grover Cleveland -
This act revised the Naturalization Act of 1870 and required immigrants to learn English in order to become naturalized citizens.
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This was the movement of six million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West.
People involved- six million African Americans -
They tried to restrict immigration by imposing a literacy test on immigrants and creating new categories of inadmissible persons.
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Citizenship was granted to all Native Americans born in the U.S.
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The court argued that imbecility, epilepsy, and feeblemindedness are hereditary and that inmates should be prevented from passing these defects to the next generation.
People involved-Buck, Bell -
Authorized the evacuation of all people that were a threat to national security from the West Coast to relocation centers further inland. This was issued by Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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This was the ordering of desegregation of the federal workforce and the military.
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African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating.
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Law that tried to encourage Native Americans to baically assimilate into the general population.
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African American students staged a sit-in to protest. This happened at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and refused to leave after being denied service.
People involved-Joseph McNeil, David Richmond -
Prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
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They marched to make sure that African Americans could exercise their constitutional right to vote.
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This outlawed discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the civil war.
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Demonstrations that were made by members of the gay community in response to a police raid that began in the early morning of June 28, 1969
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Their goal was to increase equality for women by building on previous feminist gains from the first wave.
People involved-Stephanie Rothman, Joan Micklin Silver -
Law stated that colleges could not exclude women from any activity including sports. They eventually changed it to where women and when are separated in sports.
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Prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability. -
This act guarantees a free, appropriate public education, or FAPE, to each child with a disability.
People involved-Gerald Ford, and handicapped children -
Civil rights law that prohibits discrimination based on disability
People involved- Lowell Weicker and Tom Harkin -
The Court held that VMI's male-only admissions policy was unconstitutional. This was a very important case in history.
People involved-Justice Clarence Thomas -
This act prevented same-sex couples whose marriages were recognized by their home states from receiving the many benefits available to other married couples under federal law.
People involved- Bob Barr and Don Nickles -
Exercise of prosecutorial discretion, providing temporary relief from deportation and work authorization to certain young undocumented immigrants.
People Involved-Barack Obama, and the children immigrants -
This granted the right to marry is guaranteed to same-sex couples by both the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause.
People involved-Obergefell and Hoggs -
This case was to protect employees against discrimination because they are gay or transgender.
People involved-Bostock and Clayton county -